Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaur in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History

Yesterday we saw dinosaur bones at the Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. There they have bits and pieces dinosaurs on display. The dinosaur bones are dated with years, like 200 million years ago. Now this raises a big question for Bible believers, mainly as we know the world is less than 6000 years old so how could these dinosaurs have existed?

There are a few answers given which we’ll explore here in short.

1. Dinosaurs never lived: G-d created the world with a history. Think of the first vultures looking for carrion, they needed some dead animal to eat right away. They could not wait. Thus the world was created with there already being dead animals for them. For a perfect ecosystem to be imbalanced there would need to be dead rotting trees, oil in the ground, and various minerals which from an evolutionary process would take a long time to form. With the above in mind it is possible to say that only dinosaur bones were created.

2. Similar to the first answer: Dinosaurs never lived. So why did G-d create them? G-d made them to test our belief in him. This applies with everything in the ground that points to evolution. G-d wants us to see it and yet still believe in him.

3. Dinosaurs did exist but were destroyed in the great flood of Noah: There are references in the Kabala to large animals that lived before the flood thar were then destroyed. These could have been dinosaurs. When the flood was upon earth, according to the Torah/Bible boiling water churned from beneath the ground with tremendous force. Thus carbon dating the bones may be correct but it does not take into account that there could have been some extreme pressure on the bones and other things on or in the ground.

4. The Seven days of creation were not literally seven days: We think of a day as a 24 hour period but it is possible to say that the days went by over millions of our years as we know it. The interesting thing is that there is no contradiction between Genesis and evolution. The seven days of creation run parallel with the evolutionary process as to what came first. Thus it is possible to say that dinosaurs did really exist millions of years ago as did the many other fossils and land and sea creature. It is possible to say that G-d created Evolution.

Well that’s it for now. We are off to explore some more museums.